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THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>EXODUS</span>
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CHAPTER 17
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Israel murmurs for want of water—Moses smites rock in Horeb, and water gushes forth—Aaron and Hur uphold Moses’ hands so that Joshua prevails against Amalek.
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And</span> all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 33: 12 (12-14).">Sin</a>, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR encamped.">pitched</a> in Rephidim: and <i>there was</i> no water for the people to drink.
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Wherefore the people <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/2a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB strove with, or complained to; Ex. 32: 22.">did</a> chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink.  And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me?  wherefore do ye <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/2b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB put the LORD to the test; TG Doubt; TG Test, Try, Prove.">tempt</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?
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And the people thirsted there for water; and the people <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ingratitude; TG Murmuring.">murmured</a> against Moses, and said, Wherefore <i>is</i> this <i>that</i> thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
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And Moses cried unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying, What shall I do unto this people?  they be almost ready to stone me.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 7: 20 (20-21).">rod</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR with which you struck the Nile.">wherewith</a> thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
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Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 20: 8 (2-13); Ps. 74: 15; Ps. 78: 15 (15-16); 1 Ne. 17: 29; D&C 133: 26.">smite</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/6b" mark="b" type="C" title="1 Ne. 20: 21; 2 Ne. 25: 20; TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation.">rock</a>, and there shall come <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/17/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Neh. 9: 15; Ps. 114: 8; Isa. 48: 21.">water</a> out of it, that the people may drink.  And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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And he called the name of the place <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Testing, Trying, or Proving.">Massah</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/7b" mark="b" type="E" title="IE Strife, Complaint; Num. 20: 13; Ps. 81: 7.">Meribah</a>, because of the <sup>c</sup><a href="ex/17/7c" mark="c" type="E" title="OR complaints, contention; Deut. 9: 22.">chiding</a> of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying, Is the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> among us, or not?
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&#182; Then came <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 24: 20; 1 Sam. 15: 2 (2-3).">Amalek</a>, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
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And Moses said unto <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 24: 13; Ex. 32: 17; Ex. 33: 11; Heb. 4: 8.">Joshua</a>, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 4: 20.">rod</a> of God in mine hand.
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So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
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But Moses’ hands <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE grew heavy with weariness."><i>were</i></a> heavy; and they took a stone, and put <i>it</i> under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/12b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR supported.">stayed</a> up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
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And Joshua <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB weakened, disabled.">discomfited</a> Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, Write this <i>for</i> a memorial in a <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 13: 1 (1-3); 1 Ne. 5: 11; 1 Ne. 19: 23; Moses 1: 41 (40-41).">book</a>, and rehearse <i>it</i> in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of <sup>b</sup><a href="ex/17/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 25: 19 (17-19); 2 Sam. 8: 12 (11-12).">Amalek</a> from under heaven.
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And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/15a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE The LORD is my banner; Judg. 6: 24.">Jehovah</a>-nissi:
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For he said, <sup>a</sup><a href="ex/17/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB A hand upon the throne of the LORD! (an oath, of strong affirmation).">Because</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath sworn <i>that</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>will</i> <i>have</i> war with Amalek from generation to generation.
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